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Race & resistance : literature & politics in Asian America / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-
- Series:
- Race and American culture.
- Race and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
- Asian Americans.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Race and resistance
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics and makes his case through the example of literature.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ONE On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body 33
- TWO Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 61
- THREE The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel 87
- FOUR Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim 107
- FIVE Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel 125
- Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects 143.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028723-3
- 1-280-53535-0
- 0-19-803358-3
- 1-282-23517-6
- 0-19-514700-6
- 9786610535354
- 0-19-530299-0
- OCLC:
- 925415052
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